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Posted on 06/22/2026 3:34:04 AM PDT by DFG
We've seen a variety of Democrats make ridiculous remarks since Elon Musk became a trillionaire following the initial public offering (IPO) of his company, SpaceX.
They all seemed to think this was the time to talk about how much the government should grab from Elon and/or billionaires to redistribute to those who didn't earn it, and punish success. The Democratic nominee for the Senate from Maine, the scandal-plagued Graham Platner, even said that they should make sure that Musk was the "last trillionaire." California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said we needed to "democratize the economy."
There was Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17), who revealed why we should never vote for his party and had problems with math as he spoke about a 5 percent wealth tax on billionaires.
This the basic difference.
Republicans believe that that if you let the wealthy spend capital` it will make Americans prosperous.
Democrats believe that the federal government investing in the healthcare & education of our people will make America prosperous & productive.
As I noted then, Democrats think that "prosperity" comes from taking more of your money because they know how to spend it for you. What an ad for why we shouldn't vote for them.
However, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) apparently decided he wanted to top Khanna with an even worse idea. Actual redistribution of Elon's trillion to other people.
First, he says you could distribute it to all American households. Then, he claims the trillion could pay for the college education of 7.7 million people. Finally, he suggests you could use it to pay for all child care costs from birth to 18 for 4.3 million kids.
The Democrats are literally now proposing the idea of confiscating all someone's money. Can we talk again about how they are rushing headlong to embrace radical leftist thought?
Leaving aside the questions of Schiff's math, Musk doesn't have a trillion dollars lying around in cash you can grab. It's locked up in the stock and the value of the companies. If you grab it, you destroy the companies and all they would provide, including the scientific advancement and the space exploration. You put all the tens of thousands of employees out of work. You destroy the investments that Americans have in his companies and probably tank the stock market, so you hurt all those people as well.
Then you would probably cause billionaires to flee the country, if we had a government idiotic and communistic enough to do this, tanking the economy and the country even more.
Then, too, can we talk about how bad they already are with the money they have taken from American taxpayers? It isn't Elon grabbing your money; it's the government. Elon was actually working hard to save us money when he was helping out the Trump administration with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Elon has created value, while politicians have created debt.
But hey, just trust the Democrats, bro. They really mean well, even though the government has already gotten trillions and not done any of these things. All you need to do is give them more money. Not to mention, it isn't the role of the government to pay for the things he's talking about.
Then, to top it off, Schiff doubled down on it after the backlash, posting Fox's take on his video, calling it (appropriately) a "war on success."
Fox News: Adam Schiff points out how far $1 TRILLION would go to help Americans afford the cost of living if tax shelters didn’t allow it all to go to one person.
Me: Yup.
Nope. Fox didn't say in that clip, "if tax shelters didn't allow it all to go to one person." That doesn't even make sense, as the money is wrapped up in stock value, not tax shelters.
Schiff called Musk's success a "product of a corrupt system." Musk's success is due to hard work and ingenuity. He earned it. Meanwhile, Schiff has been part of the system that just keeps spending more and piling up the debt, so what is he even saying?
Any Democrat who comes up with these kinds of ideas should be willing to put up some of their own money. After all, if they care about "income inequality," it's the least they can do if they're going to push these ideas.
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Elon is the wrong kind of African. If Somali fraudsters garnered a trillion dollars, as long as Dems got their cut, you wouldn’t hear a peep out of them.
Exactly, Shiff would be the first in line praising Elon if he was getting his corrupt share.
Someone who works hard, earns success and does not pay off the uniparty is worse than a pdf to people like Shiff. (though Schiff probably finds pdf a desirable trait)
“ First, he says you could distribute it to all American households. Then, he claims the trillion could pay for the college education of 7.7 million people. Finally, he suggests you could use it to pay for all child care costs from birth to 18 for 4.3 million kids.”
The 2026 budget is already spending $7.4 Trillion on revenues of $5.6 Trillion.
Yet, none of what Slimy Schiff proposes to do with $1 Trillion has been done.
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DC has had too much money. Their thoughts of spending has led to a 34 trillion dollar deficit ie: our money spent that they don’t have.
Now they want to spend spend spend
Defund the fed and cut all politician funding let them pay for fixing their blind screwup.
“democratize the economy.”
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That’s one of the least democratic statements I’ve seen in a while.
Out of curiousity, how much is Adam Schitt (POS, PRCA) worth?
Adam Schiff is a commie, pillow-biter.
Scumbags like that Piece Of Schiff have already wasted away 40 Trillion dollars we didn’t even have . Giving our out of control government more money is like giving a crack addict all the crack they could ever want .
There is no other person on Earth I would rather see become a Trillionaire than Elon Musk. His whole life has been dedicated to expanding Civilization into space . The sooner we can get people living and working off of Earth the better. Civilization has reached the point where it can wipe itself out given the chance. Once people are living in space Civilization once again has a chance against the crazies who would destroy it .
POSchiff in government. HOORAY Elon!
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
You can spend money, but you cannot spend capital. Each of Elon's shares represents a fractional ownership of the physical assets, IP and good will of the company, which only turns into a call on cash after goods and services are provided and paid for, and the company pays its providers, employees, debt holders, etc. Then there is some remaining cash, normally called profit, a substantial fraction of which gets reinvested to keep the company health and competitive and some of which might be sent to shareholders. So you could take all of Elon's cash income from that at it might when the companies business matures net a couple of percent of the gross revenue per year. 2% of a Trillion, say is $20B, a tidy sum, but not a windfall to the political entities that try to steal it. Or Mandami could really steal the wealth and become director and principal share holder. He cannot even figure out how to collect trash, much less run a rocket company.
How ‘bout we confiscate ALL of pedo Schitt’s senate pay and give it to the poor? Worthless POS.
He should just wear a dress.
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